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A change for college basketball?

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Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen is asking to meet with NBA officials to discuss the 19-or-older age requirement the league compels players to follow.



Roethlisberger Lawsuit Football

NFL looks into allegations against Roethlisberger

What happened at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in summer 2008 that is the big talk around Steelers camp as the quarterback gets ready to defend the team’s championship.


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Boarding up the border

WE SAY The policy changes are a smarter approach to curbing illegal immigration. The new policies use a smarter rationale for curbing illegal immigration than ideas like building a wall, and they refrain from demonizing those who are already here illegally.





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Ahmadinejad sticks by his VP appointment

TEHRAN, Iran – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stuck by his controversial appointment for a key top deputy Wednesday in an unusual defiance of Iran’s supreme leader who reportedly ordered the man’s removal. His move deepens the dispute among the country’s hard-line leadership.


Kettles in July

Donation slump could hinder Salvation Army's disaster assistance

JACKSON, Miss. – The Salvation Army is struggling with dwindling donations across the country that will make it hard to give long-term assistance after a disaster, and a spokesman for the charity said “we have to hope and pray” this year’s hurricane season is mild.


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Biden: US stands with Georgia

TBILISI, Georgia – The Obama administration firmly supports Georgia, but President Mikheil Saakashvili must further encourage democracy, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday.


Switzerland

Big banking and famous art in Basel

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BASEL, Switzerland – For the past two months, the Kunstmuseum in Basel has been host to an extraordinary exhibit thanks to its troubled artist and its troubled sponsor. Vincent van Gogh’s landscape artwork forms the bulk of “Between Earth and Heaven: The Landscapes,” an exhibition presented by the Union Bank of Switzerland, also known as UBS.


Obit McCourt

‘Angela’s Ashes’ author McCourt dies in NYC at 78

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NEW YORK – Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of “Angela’s Ashes,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning “epic of woe” about his impoverished Irish childhood, died Sunday of cancer.


Moon Landing Anniversary Photo Package

Strides in space

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WASHINGTON – The measure of what humanity can accomplish is a size 9 1/2 bootprint. It belongs to Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. It will stay on the moon for years with nothing to wipe it away, serving as a testament to a can-do mankind.



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Indiana man drowns in Lake Monroe

David Richards’ body was found about five hours after he went missing, said Angela Goldman, Indiana Department of Natural Resources spokeswoman.




The Indiana Daily Student

Nuclear physicist’s work opens intra-atomic world

IU nuclear physicist Mike Snow’s investigations into the weak interactions of low-energy neutrons will advance using equipment funded by the IU Office of the Vice Provost for Research and then be put into use at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.